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Public schools playing at the Division II level without a football program have the lowest costs. (All costs are measured in 2013 dollars.) With 1,000 students, their per-student costs for athletics are about $2,500. If they have more than 3,000 students, their per-student costs fall to around $1,000. For public schools playing FBS football, the costs are much higher, but so too are the numbers of students. At 10,000 students the per-student costs are around $4,400; at 20,000 students the costs are about $2,600; and for a truly large state school with 40,000 students, the costs fall to just over $1,500.
SEC schools spent an average of $582,000 per year recruiting football players during the five-year period, far more than schools in the other four power conferences â the Big 12 ($450,000), Big Ten ($444,000), Atlantic Coast ($426,000) and Pac-12 ($403,000).SA TODAY Sports' analysis also ranked schools' recruiting spending based on bang for the buck. Boise State won 55 games from 2010 to 2014 with four finishes in the top 25 of the Amway Coaches Poll for an average of just under $12,000 in recruiting expenses per win.